Guyon tunnel syndrome secondary to excessive healing tissue in a child: a case report

Aydıner Kalacı1, Yunus Doğramacı1, Teoman Toni Sevinç1, Nedim Ahmet Yanat1
1Dept. of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Medicine, Antakya, Turkey

Tóm tắt

We describe a case of an 8-year-old boy who developed a combined motor and sensory neuropathy of the distal ulnar nerve, after sustaining a superficial injury to the right flexor carpi ulnaris tendon at the level of the distal wrist crease. Guyon's canal syndrome is a very rare entity during childhood. We have noted only one prior description of this syndrome in the pediatric age group in a review of the English literature.

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